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Then-Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney takes the stage to concede his quest for president at the Boston Convention Center in Boston in 2012. On Monday, Romney penned an op-ed piece, blaming President Barack Obama for a failure in the foreign policy. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that published Monday, citing foreign policy failure on the part of President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Romney wrote Monday that there are “no good options” for the U.S. "from Crimea to North Korea, from Syria to Egypt, and from Iraq to Afghanistan” due to negligence on Obama’s part.

"President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton traveled the world in pursuit of their promise to reset relations and to build friendships across the globe,” Romney said. “Their failure has been painfully evident: It is hard to name even a single country that has more respect and admiration for America today than when President Obama took office, and now Russia is in Ukraine. Part of their failure, I submit, is due to their failure to act when action was possible, and needed. A chastened president and Secretary of State Kerry, a year into his job, can yet succeed, and for the country’s sake, must succeed. Timing is of the essence.”

Romney also blamed Obama for an inability to act in a timely matter.

"A large part of the answer is our leader’s terrible timing. In virtually every foreign-affairs crisis we have faced these past five years, there was a point when America had good choices and good options,” Romney wrote. “There was a juncture when America had the potential to influence events. But we failed to act at the propitious point; that moment having passed, we were left without acceptable options.”